A Poem — I got your letter today and I thought it would shatter me pieceless, but it didn’t do that at all which made me feel weird and a bit more human for some odd reason It’s like I’ve been so low that this somehow couldn’t drag me down any further than my toes and my…

A Poem — Some days I take two steps forward and then immediately take two steps back because I can never take just one step as my body likes to leap, both ways, to make it more exciting, which also makes it more likely that I will fall You wouldn’t think a fall…

A Poem — Let these words overflow and protect me from this unavoidable feeling of shame as if I should’ve known that something was wrong or off-kilter in this lens even though I am not a serious photographer and can only shoot baskets and take selfies because it’s too much to capture images when your head refuses to release them…

A Poem — I feel a sense of resignation in my body this morning an unresisting acceptance of something inescapable even though I was trying to run away from it all Sometimes it just sinks in and you submit to life and the circuitous routes it takes to heal you and your emotional turmoil with the warmth of…

Why are we always pushing to be more? — We all need coping mechanisms. Things that can get us through the hardest of days. A thought or action that can bring us back from the doldrums and into the present. A present which is constantly changing from second to second. My coping mechanism, or so I thought, used to…

A Poem — This aching inside of me is like a slow yearning for something rational that might make more sense if I were not me and always trapped inside this head My head is aching hourly with back thoughts of us and present captures of what we will never be, leaving me stoic and silent with only…